Hey that HP Touchsmart is actually quite a smart machine and not too touch to get in! Excellent photos!
These brand-machines albeit Acer or HP are known for their 'incompatibility' when it comes to upgrading. Stuff that physically and electronically fits just would not work. Like you with your videocard upgrade I had a similar experience trying to upgrade my Acer 3810 desktop - the manual states it supports higher spec CPUs up to 3.0Ghz but when I tried popping in a 2.8Ghz one I got zilch.
Turned out I needed a BIOS update, but updating that just was not possible. I guess they wanted to make the system so monkey proof that updating the BIOS just didn't work with the provided Windows APP. Another option is to update the BIOS from DOS but since the machine has no floppy drive I am not able to boot into DOS any easy way.
I think I may have a E8300 CPU Core2Duo that is gathering dust......a self built machine with Gigabyt, Asus, Elitegroup or other mainstream motherboard would have accepted the CPU without any problems.
Perhaps the fact that the system uses a special Touch screen - and probably proprietary bios supporting the touch screen including the built in graphics card. And if you did manage to get the extra graphics card working it probably will have not worked properly with the touch stuff....
Sometimes you're better off building your own systems, especially when you want to upgrade.... My system also was very particular about the graphicscards I tried when I wanted to upgrade from the 8400 Nvidia PCIe graphics card. Arrghh....
Hey that HP Touchsmart is actually quite a smart machine and not too touch to get in! Excellent photos!
These brand-machines albeit Acer or HP are known for their 'incompatibility' when it comes to upgrading. Stuff that physically and electronically fits just would not work. Like you with your videocard upgrade I had a similar experience trying to upgrade my Acer 3810 desktop - the manual states it supports higher spec CPUs up to 3.0Ghz but when I tried popping in a 2.8Ghz one I got zilch.
Turned out I needed a BIOS update, but updating that just was not possible. I guess they wanted to make the system so monkey proof that updating the BIOS just didn't work with the provided Windows APP. Another option is to update the BIOS from DOS but since the machine has no floppy drive I am not able to boot into DOS any easy way.
I think I may have a E8300 CPU Core2Duo that is gathering dust......a self built machine with Gigabyt, Asus, Elitegroup or other mainstream motherboard would have accepted the CPU without any problems.
Perhaps the fact that the system uses a special Touch screen - and probably proprietary bios supporting the touch screen including the built in graphics card. And if you did manage to get the extra graphics card working it probably will have not worked properly with the touch stuff....
Sometimes you're better off building your own systems, especially when you want to upgrade.... My system also was very particular about the graphicscards I tried when I wanted to upgrade from the 8400 Nvidia PCIe graphics card. Arrghh....
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